What are you DEHYDRATING today?

[valmom]

Does anyone know if you can successfully dehydrate seedy berries like blackberries? I have done my blueberries and a few tomatoes (got very few from my "bucket garden") so far. I have wild blackberries coming in now and would love to dry them.

 

[me&thegals]

I'm sure you could, but it's hard to see the end product as very tasty, as ALL that would be left would basically be the seeds... I like freezing mine for use in winter smoothies and to be stirred into applesauce. The only way I would consider drying them would be if the seeds were smooshed out and then the pulp made into fruit leathers or something like that. Who knows? <shrug>

 

[valmom]

Good point. :/ I wasn't going to make jam from them because I don't get as many as the birds do. Just a handfull at a time. I suppose I will just have to eat them fresh.

 

[me&thegals]

Well, if you want jam but just can't get enough at one time, how about freezing each handful until you have enough? Then, thaw, smash and make into jam

 

[noobiechickenlady]

Does anyone know if you can successfully dehydrate seedy berries like blackberries? I have done my blueberries and a few tomatoes (got very few from my "bucket garden") so far. I have wild blackberries coming in now and would love to dry them.

They don't do well as whole berries, but as fruit leather they are awesome! I was very disappointed at the tiny little rocks with very little flavor that I got when I dried a sheet of whole ones.

 

[sparks]

I dehydrated small pear tomatoes. Cut in half and lighty salted. To eat as snacks or to add to things

 

[Wifezilla]

I forgot about my dehydrating tomatoes in the oven. Opppsss! They are extra crispy, but will still get used.

 

[TanksHill]

I did bell peppers. Chopped a gazillion or a pasta salad this past weekend. I figured whatever I did not use I would save. I love the smell of peppers dehydrating.

gina

 

[FarmerDenise]

I freeze blackberries. It is super easy, just put on a cookie sheet, once they are hard, put them in a baggy. You can save up enoughof them that way, to make something worth while. I make blackberry jam in the winter from my frozen ones. and deserts with blackberry fillings. They mush as they thaw.

I am still dehydrating italian plums in my car, it hasn't been hot enough. Hopefully they'll really get cooked out tomorrow, it's suposed to get really hot. I am tired of watching out for those plums as I am doing errands SO almost sat on them today

 

[dagaul101]

Ahh but if you had squashed them that might have quickened the drying as the surface area has been spread nicely